Dr Marwan al-Sultan, a senior cardiologist and the director of the Indonesian hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, his wife and several family members were killed on 2 July in a direct Israeli airstrike on their apartment building (Report, 4 July). Dr Sultan is the 70th healthcare worker killed in the past two months, and among more than 1,400 medical personnel killed thus far during the war.
The Indonesian hospital has been under a prolonged siege by the Israel Defense Forces for many weeks, has been attacked from the air multiple times and was shut down in May. Following its closure, the UN announced there were no more functioning hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip.
